--that by one report, tickets for Friday night's NBA Game between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden cost as much as $79,000? I'll bet there's at least one person who leveraged his child's college tuition so that he could smell LeBron James' B.O.. Isn't that sad?
--that more people will attend this year's Super Bowl in that monument to Jerry Jones' ego outside Dallas than live in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Cape Coral, Florida or Albany, New York? Or that more people have been murdered in Chicago this year--412--than live in its suburb of Arlington?
--that for every McDonald's in the U.S., there are as many as three Barnes & Noble employees?
--that Donald Trump's net worth ($2 billion) is more than the gross national product of American Samoa ($575.3 million)?
--that there are only 121 more inmates on death row in every prison in America than there are residents of the Falkland Islands?
--that neither our current President or Vice President served in any military capacity prior to assuming office, and both men are attorneys? (In fairness, Vice President Biden was reclassified as ineligible by the Selective Service, as he had asthma as a teenager.)
--that on average, 642, 000 people watch ESPN and ESPN2 every day combined--88 million people every month. That's nearly double the amount that watch Lifetime on average per day.
--that a week ago, five days before the basketball game I mentioned before, the great opera star Renee Fleming gave a recital at Chicago's Lyric Opera House, where she has accepted a position as an artistic consultant. The show sold out; the top ticket price to see Fleming's voice soar like an angel's: $149.
Just some brain food for you to chew on...
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